fs, dax: prepare for dax-specific address_space_operations

In preparation for the dax implementation to start associating dax pages
to inodes via page->mapping, we need to provide a 'struct
address_space_operations' instance for dax. Define some generic VFS aops
helpers for dax. These noop implementations are there in the dax case to
prevent the VFS from falling back to operations with page-cache
assumptions, dax_writeback_mapping_range() may not be referenced in the
FS_DAX=n case.

Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Suggested-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

1 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index 7ff3cb904acd..0fb590d79f30 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -1060,6 +1060,45 @@ int noop_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(noop_fsync);
 
+int noop_set_page_dirty(struct page *page)
+{
+	/*
+	 * Unlike __set_page_dirty_no_writeback that handles dirty page
+	 * tracking in the page object, dax does all dirty tracking in
+	 * the inode address_space in response to mkwrite faults. In the
+	 * dax case we only need to worry about potentially dirty CPU
+	 * caches, not dirty page cache pages to write back.
+	 *
+	 * This callback is defined to prevent fallback to
+	 * __set_page_dirty_buffers() in set_page_dirty().
+	 */
+	return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(noop_set_page_dirty);
+
+void noop_invalidatepage(struct page *page, unsigned int offset,
+		unsigned int length)
+{
+	/*
+	 * There is no page cache to invalidate in the dax case, however
+	 * we need this callback defined to prevent falling back to
+	 * block_invalidatepage() in do_invalidatepage().
+	 */
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(noop_invalidatepage);
+
+ssize_t noop_direct_IO(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *iter)
+{
+	/*
+	 * iomap based filesystems support direct I/O without need for
+	 * this callback. However, it still needs to be set in
+	 * inode->a_ops so that open/fcntl know that direct I/O is
+	 * generally supported.
+	 */
+	return -EINVAL;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(noop_direct_IO);
+
 /* Because kfree isn't assignment-compatible with void(void*) ;-/ */
 void kfree_link(void *p)
 {